New Zealand Listener

From the Listener archive: Columnists

June 28-July 4 2008 Vol 214 No 3555

• Health A wee problem by Linley Boniface
  A social taboo we seldom discuss.

• Nutrition Overweight debate by Jennifer Bowden
  Is an obscure virus really to blame for the obesity epidemic?

• Ecologic Message in a bottle by Sarah Barnett
  Should New Zealand make residential rainwater tanks mandatory?

• Economy So you want tax cuts? by Brian Easton
  Cutting ‘wasteful’ public spending will not be easy.

• Sport Put to the test by Paul Lewis
  Time for John Bracewell to call it a day?

• Inbox Throwing in the towel rail by Jon Bridges
  Thirteen ways to solve the electricity crisis now and forever.

• Inbox Oh for an Oyster by Martin Bosley
  The strong, sweet, flinty taste of an oyster is at its best in winter.

• Wine A price to pay by Michael Cooper
  When it comes to a good wine, cost doesn’t count.

• Travel Bones of contention by Stuart Hoar
  Just who is that in Yeats’ grave?

• Politics What a turn-off by Jane Clifton
  The Government is back in Nanny’s starchiest pinny.

• Life Shed some light by Bill Ralston
  Never mind our blooming bulbs, what about South Auckland?

• The Black Page Publish and be damned by Joanne Black
  Big can be beautiful when it comes to hanging on to media freedom.

• Wide Area News The human condition by Russell Brown
  We – and the internet – have come a long way.

• Editorial Guns and roses
  Let’s not kid ourselves that arming police is a long-term solution.